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AIRSHIP.

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RUDOLF GENDTS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

AIRSHIP.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented 3.2, 1912.

- Application filed April 29, 1909. Serial No. 493,012.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUnoLF Gnnors, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State'of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Airships, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to airships' of the class known as t lighterthan' air and of rigid system. It particularly pertains to airships which consist of a cigar-shaped metal as balloon, and has for its object to simplify the construction such as to dispense with the car which hitherto has been suspended from the balloon and in which the motors for driving it are arranged.

It also has the object to provide appropriate means for steering and propelling the airship.

In order to make my invention more clear the same is-illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in Which Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the airshi Fig. 2 a cross section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a cross section on line 3 -3 of Fi 1, and Fig; 4: a top plan View of therud er end of the airship.

it and containing the In the drawing '1 denotes the cigar-shaped gas balloon which may be made of aluminum and may receive the gas directly, or as in the Zeppelin system, contain a number of balloonettes. Extending centrally and longitudinally in said balloon is a compartment 2 which at the bottom of the balloon is widest and is gradually narrowed in upward direc jtion. This compartment may be made of suitable length'and height sufiicient to contain the motors 3, 3, the transmission shaft 54, transmission gearings 5, 6 and the driven shaft 7. It may be tightly closed against the compartment 'or compartments surrounding gas, or gas balloonettes. a r

In the center above the compartment 2 a box-shaped space 8 is formed which takes the place of the suspended car with ordinary airships, and is adapted to receive passengers or'to form the stand for the driver or captain. This space may be somewhat widened, as seen from Fig. 3.. -lletween the bottom 9 of this space and the top of the compartment 2 a space 10 be provided to contain fuel tanks, gas reservoirs, or the means of a steering wheel 20. The same may be constructed as an ordinary rudder, but I preferto arrange the same as follows: Fulcrumed or hinged in brackets 21 project-- ing from the rear point of the airship are at each side thereof rudder blades 22. The forward upper ends of the rudder blades are connected with one another by a rod 23. Mounted upon the spindle 2 1 borne on the upper surface and at the rear end of the airship is a beveled gear 25, with which meshes a gear 26 mounted on the steering spindle27. The rod 23 by a crank arm 28 is connected with the spindle 24, so that by the rotation of the spindle 27 by means of the wheel 20, movement from the gear 25 will be transmitted to the paddles or blades 22 into one or the other direction, in consequence ofwhich the airship will be steered accordingly.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 2- 1. In an airship, the combination with motors, transmission gearings and propel.-

lers, of a rigid cigar-shaped gas balloon con taining. a lower compartment to receivethc motors and the transmission gearings; an upper open compartment to serve as senger car, a pair of rudder blades, gears for transmitting movement to the latter; a central steering spindle carrying at one end one of said gears and terminating at its other end into the open compartment, and

a steering wheel mounted on said free end.

2. In an airship, rigid balloon having an upper compartment open at the top and serving as a passenger car, a pair of lateral rudder blades, a rod connecting said rudder latter with the connecting rod of the ruclder blades together, a central longitudinal blades. spindle extending from the upper margin In testimony whereof I aflix my signature of: the ear redrvmrd :1 vertical shaft can in presence of two Witnesses.

:1 riecl by the rear end of the body of the ship, RUDOLF a gear on said shaft, a second gear carried Witnesses: by the splndle and meslnng Wrth' the salcl l ELLIS V. LEVY, first gear and a crank arm connect-mg the I MAX D. ORDMANN. 

